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Due to the VRMs and DRAM (edit: NAND) also having lower temps and not just the SoC I think we can eliminate hardwarebusters getting lucky with the silicon lottery. This heatsink redesign is simply superior despite the lower weight.

I meant casual consumers (gamers) obviously, as I wrote in the post prior , but I was rushing to respond as I had to get out the door to get to work. I didn't have time to make sure I carefully fleshed/parsed out what I was saying. Obviously alot of the people who bought PS4 at higher price...

not sure, its hard to find charts that cover the entire generation, this one even took a while to find Throw games away? [scratching head] I'm just talking about taking the same PS5 SoC downclockig to reduce cooling power requirements with half the ram (+1GB DDR4 via southbridge) and half the...

They could lose tens of millions of casual gamers who are insanely price sensitive. IIRC probably 65+ million of PS4 owners waited 2 years or longer until PS4 dropped to $299 or lower in various sales (eg Black friday) / or just msrp dropping to 299 or lower.

I'm thinking Sony could compete against XSS with a PS5 lite: Same SoC (good from a manufacturing perspective) downclocked to 7TF, discless, 512GB SSD with 8GB GDDR6 (entire 8GB available to devs or maybe 0.5 reserved for OS if it must) + 1-2GB DDR4 connected to the southbridge for the OS...

To compete against XSS could Sony (using the same SoC) create downclocked 7TF discless 512GB SSD version of PS5 with 8GB GDDR6 (entire 8GB available to devs) + 1-2GB DDR4 connected to the southbridge for the OS (similar to the 1GB in PS4 PRO)? Sure switching between games and the OS might be...

....I've heard on the whispers of the wind that MS is the victor in the bidding war for Warnerbros Games....

Dr David Kanter said RDNA1 architecture retains elements of GCN, so I wonder if Sony chose to forgo certain RDNA2 features in order to retain the necessary GCN arch to help facilitate a more hardware approach to backwards compatibility? Sony's software stack is not as good as MS, coupled with...

My understanding is GPU side optimizations are real, but if you have a videocard from the same architecture family you too can see some of those the same GPU-side optimizations. It also is on a game by game basis and often times particularly with 3rd party devs under a deadline with limited...

Good point. Maybe with the increased industry use of VRS and dynamic resolution scaling the difference might not occur in framerate. One person's PS5 running a game at 1800p while your neighbor's runs at 1700p might not be noticed and problematic to anyone other than the very hardcore or...

Could Sony be employing something similar to MS's Hovis Method where due to the silicon lottery each chip is has its power profile customized optimally for each chip? So in theory one person's PS5 could offer slightly different performance than another that requires slightly higher voltage to...

Is there a danger of being too dismissive of new members? As a new member pre-PS4 launch pushing for the possibility PS4 suffers from a small-to-moderate amount of memory contention and some more senior members getting annoyed and dismissing as "there was no proof" and the thread was locked...

Yeah it was a 53mhz boost to the GPU, but by extension the ESRAM memory bandwidth got a boost from ~102GB/s to ~109GB/s.

Don't forget warranties and repair-ability. Desktop PCs have an enormous advantage there. 90 day warranty on Xbox controllers, 1 yr on hardware. You can get 3-5 yr warranty on practically every component if you chose the right brands from keyboard to mobos to SSD/HDD to PSUs to CPUs. And...

Load times on PC are also hampered by the fact that in many games - machine code such as shader binaries are being compiled during these loading screen. Whereas with consoles game makers can ship a handful of shader binary "blobs" on the disc/download for the various models (eg X,S) and various...